Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of providing a test framework in an on-demand services environment can include: accessing a plurality of tests via plug-ins to a core platform of the test framework; receiving, by a user interface, a selection of tests for execution from the plurality of tests, where the selected tests are configured to test a plurality of layers of a product; executing, by an execution engine coupled to the core platform, the selected tests; storing test results for the executed selected tests on a configurable repository; and reporting the stored test results in a summarized form on the user interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 3, 2010
Date of Patent:
October 21, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Scott Glaser, Poonguzhali Balasubramanian
Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for pushing data, which maybe associated with documents that are being tracked, in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for pushing data in an on-demand service can enable subscriptions to elements associated with the documents being shared. As a result of the subscription the user may be notified that a document associated with the subscription has been changed (e.g., altered). In an embodiment, the subscription may be forced on a user.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 15, 2007
Date of Patent:
October 21, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Timothy J Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L Pletter
Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating customized overriding of data for maintenance of software applications in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes duplicating first data of a first data set into a second data that is placed in a second data set. The first data relates to a software application at a computing device. The method may further include amending a portion of the second data at the second data set. The amended portion of the second data corresponds to an unchanged portion of the first data. The method may further include facilitating running of the software application based on the first data while referring to the amended portion of the second data and ignoring the corresponding unchanged portion of the first data.
Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for responding to actionable text patterns in a feed item. In some implementations, a computing device receives textual input for a feed item to be published in an information feed. The computing device identifies in the textual input an actionable text pattern and transmits a portion of the actionable text pattern to a server. The computing device receives, from the server, one or more names of entities. The entities may be object records stored in a database, wherein the names of the entities match the portion of the actionable text pattern transmitted to the server. The computing device receives a selection of a first of the one or more names.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 11, 2014
Publication date:
October 16, 2014
Applicant:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Benjamin Snyder, Vahn K. Phan, Mustafa O. Al-Alami, Jason Aaron Ellis
Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for managing customer service agent workload in a customer service environment. In some implementations, one or more servers receive a communication associated with a customer case item. The one or more servers determine one or more case attributes associated with the customer case item and identify a first customer service agent having one or more agent attributes that match the one or more case attributes of the customer case item. The one or more servers assign the customer case item to the first customer service agent and provide first data of the customer case item to a first display device associated with the first customer service agent, the first display device configured to display a user interface including a first component indicating the first data of the customer case item.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 13, 2014
Publication date:
October 16, 2014
Applicant:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Benjamin Snyder, Vahn K. Phan, Mustafa O. Al-Alami, Jason Aaron Ellis
Abstract: A method of establishing personalized limits on a search responsive to a key word query in an enterprise search system is described that includes receiving an object types access history for a particular user. Applying this method, the object types access history includes records of object types selected from search results returning multiple object types and records of object types selected via interfaces other than search results. The method continues with determining and storing in computer readable memory a personalized scope of object types. The personalized scope of object types sets a limit on object types initially returned by an enterprise search system for the particular user in response to key word queries by the particular user that do not specify object types to search.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 12, 2014
Publication date:
October 16, 2014
Applicant:
SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
Inventors:
Walter Macklem, David Nathanson, Jia Chen, Luke Ball, Shankara Subramanya, Kanishka Maheshwari, Susan Kimberlin
Abstract: In a method, system, and computer-readable medium having instructions for customizing standard formula fields, at least a portion of a formula is received for a standard database field of a standard database entity in a multi-tenant database and the standard database entity is used by a plurality of tenants, a date range is stored for maintaining at least the portion of the formula, information on one or more variables of the formula is received, a value is calculated for the standard database field with at least the portion of the formula and information on the one or more variables of the formula and one or more database entities depend on the value for the standard database field, and the value is stored for the standard database field.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 5, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 14, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Tyler Ziemann, Susan S. Levine, Neeraj Ahuja
Abstract: Techniques and systems for modifying a virtual machine functionality. Archive files each including at least a class files are received. The archive files are stored within the virtual machine. The virtual machine runs on a host system and neither the virtual machine nor the host system are restarted in response to the receiving or storing of the archive files. Files of the host system are scanned to find class files that are not included in a class path for the virtual machine. The class files are copied to a class path for the virtual machine. Neither the virtual machine nor the host system are restarted in response to the copying of the class files. The classes corresponding to the class files are registered in the virtual machine in response to the copying of the class files to the class path. Neither the virtual machine nor the host system are restarted in response to the registration of the classes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 26, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 14, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Stephen Wood, Samuel William Bailey, Matthew Lucas
Abstract: There are provided mechanisms and methods for managing a risk of access to an on-demand service as a condition of permitting access to the on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for providing such management can help prohibit an unauthorized user from accessing an account of an authorized user when the authorized user inadvertently loses login information. The ability to provide such management may lead to an improved security feature for accessing on-demand services.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 19, 2012
Date of Patent:
October 14, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Forrest A. Junod, Robert C. Fly, Peter Dapkus, Scott W. Yancey, Steven S. Lawrance, Simon Z. Fell
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for atomic transactions in a NoSQL database. A system writes a pending transaction identifier to write claim data for a first data item in a NoSQL database in response to a determination that the write claim data for the first data item includes a first previous transaction identifier included in last commit data for the first data item. The system writes the pending transaction identifier and a pending commit identifier to the last commit data for the first data item. The system writes a first value associated with a pending transaction to the first data item. The system aborts the pending transaction in response to a determination that the write claim data for the first data item does not include the first previous transaction identifier included in the last commit data for the first data item.
Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention include determining if updates performed by a second user include a systematic change such as a reversal of an update previously performed by a first user within a time window. The reversal is associated with a record of data used by a gamification application executing in a computer system. A time delay is introduced between the update performed by the second user and rewarding the second user if the update performed by the second user includes the reversal within the time window. An update history of the first user and the second user is evaluated to identify pattern of reversals associated with similar records within the time window. The second user is prevented from being rewarded based on identifying that there are patterns of reversals from the update history occurring within the time window.
Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided systems and methods for implementing a uniform application user interface across a hosted computing environment, such as an on-demand or cloud computing environment which utilizes multi-tenant database technologies, client-server technologies, traditional database technologies, or other computing architecture in support of the hosted computing environment.
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for searchable screen sharing sessions. A system records at least one image associated with a screen sharing session. The system extracts content from the at least one image. The system stores the content as searchable content associated with the screen sharing session.
Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to automatic generation of tuples from a record set for outlier analysis. Applying this new technology, user need not specify which 1-tuples to combine into n-tuples. The tuples are generated from structured records organized into features (that also could be fields, objects or attributes.) Tuples are generated from combinations of feature values in the records. Thresholding is applied to manage the number of tuples generated. The technology disclosed further relates to indexing and searching high dimensional tuple spaces in a computer-implemented system.
Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for capturing information regarding an interaction to a database. A client device receives an indication of an interaction with the client device that satisfies a user-defined trigger. A user interface is provided to the client device having input controls capable of receiving one or more information items. The one or more information items include values for a first data field regarding a user-selected expression and a second data field regarding at least one entity associated with the interaction. The one or more information items may generate a custom object that is stored in a database of the on-demand database service. A profile object for the at least one entity may be generated based on an aggregation of the stored one or more items with attributes of the at least one entity.
Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing access to data based on information associated with a physical location of a user. These mechanisms and methods for managing access to systems, products, or data based on information associated with a physical location of a user can enable improved data management efficiency, enhanced data management accuracy, decreased data management costs, decreased licensing costs, increased security, additional marketing opportunities, etc.
Abstract: In a method, system, and computer-readable medium having instructions for sharing information between tenants of a multi-tenant database, information is received on a connection between a first tenant of a multi-tenant database and a second tenant and the connection has information on a scope of data from the first tenant shared with the second tenant, data is allowed for a record of the first tenant to be accessible to the second tenant in accordance with the connection, information is received on a file related to the record of the first tenant, and data is allowed from the file to be accessible to the second tenant in accordance with the connection.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 21, 2013
Date of Patent:
October 7, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Aditya S. Kuruganti, Simon Z. Fell, Jayaprakash Pasala, Samatha Sanikommu, Kedar Doshi, Sanjaya Lai
Abstract: Systems and methods are described for communicating between a client machine and a server. A security token message may be transmitted from the server to the client machine. The security token message may include a first security token. The first security token may include a communication interaction identifier that identifies a communication interaction between the client machine and the server and an action request identifier that identifies an action request message capable of being sent from the client machine to the server to request that an action be performed on the server. An action request message including a second security token and transmitted in association with the communication interaction may be received at the server. When it is determined that the first security token matches the second security token, the requested action may be performed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 12, 2011
Date of Patent:
September 30, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Peter Dapkus, Alan Vangpat, Nikita Prokopev, Forrest Junod
Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating spin mode-based dynamic updating of application servers. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes upgrading a first set of application servers of a plurality of application servers at one or more computing devices, holding a first set of requests received at the first set of application servers from being processed while the first set of application servers is being upgraded, and upgrading a second set of application servers of the plurality of application servers upon completion of the first set of application servers. The method may further include holding a second set of requests received at the second set of application servers from being processed while the second set of application servers is being upgraded, and resuming processing of the first set of requests at the upgraded first set of application servers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 30, 2014
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Karthik Rajan, Pallav Kothari, Scott Hansma